Show F wa MAN PA K F M c SURPLUS the th S federal farm board has too much wheat and cotton on hand the brazilian government has too much coff coffee ee on hand we want coffee brazil wants wheat so 60 an all international swap has been arranged the chinese are suffering lor for food the government has asked the parm farm board to sell it bushels bushels ot of wheat a month tor for six months or on longtime long time credit it may be a very long time but it seems to me worth doing it will benefit millions and harm nobody it will relieve this country ot of much of 0 its wheat surplus save storage charges and save human lives there ought to be nothing in any laws to prevent it being done now it if all or of the cotton states will join in malting making it illegal to grow any cotton nt at all in 1932 that surplus will be wiped out and fair prices will return in the cotton market marl set i ija VACATION ira professor willis A sutton head bead ot of the school system ot of atlanta who has just retired as president of the national rational education association says that the long summer vacation without responsibility does children more harm than good and puts too much ol of a burden on their parents dr suttons buttons remedy so far as city schools me are concerned Is to give pupils lummer jummer work to do which will take them out of doors but still occupy time which otherwise would be spent tn in aimless play there Is such sound sense in what dr sutton says that it will not surprise me if a complete revolution in school systems results from it more vacations and shorter ones are better for children and lor for their families than the long irresponsible pon sible summer period of idleness STARS thirty eight years ago a ray ot of light left the star arcturus and started toward the earth it takes light traveling at the rate ot of mi miles a second forty years to get from arcturus to the earth the ray which started in 1903 the year ot of the great worlds columbian exposition in chicago will reach the earth in 1933 when chicago intends to stage another worlds fair at the yerkes observatory at geneva wisconsin the great telescope will be focused on arcturus in the spring ot of 1933 the ray of light which will have been forty years on its travels will be reflected into a photosensitive photo sensitive cell which will convert it into electric energy this energy will throw a switch which will turn on the lights of the new worlds air and officially open the exposition I 1 nothing could be more fitting to illus rate the progress of science in the pat past I 1 orty years the exhibition which is a to be opened by light irom from a star will contain the greatest collection of scientific marvels ever brought together what the mind of 0 man has achieved in the conquest of nature since the last ast chicago worlds fair Is almost unbelievable GRATITUDE I 1 want to pay my respects to my neighbor miss nellie gray of west stockbridge mass who has done something the like of which I 1 never heard of she has givert given the town of west stockbridge as recompense tor for the 25 years during which the town supported her gratitude nellla nellie gray la is 72 years old and has been a helpless cripple since she was ten months old her gentle face in her wheel chair is familiar to everybody in the town up to 25 years ago a sister supported ted her after the death ot of their parents but on tho the a sisters death there seemed to be no one to help so the selectmen have provided her a 91 meager living out of the town funds every year since there was a brother but he had left home and nobody knew where he was not long ago he be was killed by an automobile and it was discovered that he was worth all of which came to nellie gray and the very first thing she did with her inheritance was to offer to the town ton to help pay for the new bildne over the williams river im going to fix up the old gray homestead miss nellie says and live there the rest of my life but first I 1 had to fix up the town that has taken care of f me so generously everybody has been wonderful to me but you cant believe how happy I 1 am not to be the town pauper any more MOVIES only seventeen percent of the featured mo motion tion pictures now being shown in the united states are fit tor for children to see according to the parents magazine the motion picture department of that periodical Is edited in operation cooperation co with the general federation of clubs the daughters of the american IC revolution eVOLution the womans comans university club 1 of los angeles and several other organizations the best current pictures according to the same authority are cimarron Cl marron city lights A connecticut yankee the conquering horde daddy long legs fathers son the great meadow the millionaire shipmates skippy tom sawyer end and trader horn the motion picture industry has criticized some of my criticisms of the movies I 1 ies so severely that I 1 am letting somebody em else say the same sam thing for a a chandel I 1 |